WiMu Museo del Vino

Somehow strange, moreover a museum for imagination and inventivity; not at all what you would expect for such museum quite expensive. Old castle refurbished. Vieux from the top terrace are beautiful - you can see all the valley! Visitors are advised to take the elevator to the third floor and go down by stairs to the basement, where they can taste and buy some wine. Tasting is not free and its cost depends on the price of wine. If you do not buy wine don’t bother to go to the basement as there are many stairs and later you have to go up :)

Was a really interesting museum. A modern twist on wine history and leans more toward the cultural significance than the actual process of producing. Plenty to keep kids interested as well. Bonus it’s in the castle!

Very interesting musuem and you can learn a lot of facts about the Wine.

As much as we hoped to enjoy this museum, it was a complete strike out for both my husband and I. We went into it hoping to learn more about how the wine making processes have grown and evolved over the years, etc. Instead, two floors of the museum are filled with abstract and “far out” displays/illustrations in dark rooms where it feels like the goal was to see how bizarre they could make everything and still call it “art.” The only wine-making tools of the trade were on dusty shelves in the basement without any information plaques describing their purpose or history. In a region with such a deep and rich wine culture, it’s really a missed opportunity to use the castle in a meaningful way.

To be honest, we did not do our research correctly and visited the "museum" on the spur of the moment. A mistake we paid for dearly, believe me. Had we checked the website and read between the lines, we could have saved us both some money and time because this museum does NOT tell its visitors how wine is made nor does it really go into the wine specifics of the beautiful Barolo region. The fact that it is not a museum about winemaking is even neatly written on a plaque in the first room AFTER you pay for the ticket. As to what the museum is trying to tell, it was lost on me in all the dark rooms filled with strange lights, strange sounds and musty smells. As for the restroom/toilet facilities, I am almost at a loss for words. Because the nightmare that greeted us there on every floor (yes, we checked) was just beyond belief.  As for the rooms of the castle themselves, they would be beautiful if they had not been vandalized by a «modernising» of the interior. The only truly untouched, genuine part we were able to discover was a beautiful wine cellar-like room, but they actually parked the gift-shop there.

A very disappointing museum. It's more like you're walking through a modern art exhibit. The room about the history of wine has nothing to show for itself. No interesting artefacts or stories. The pieces that are meant to give some more explanation are weirdly abstract and have completely useless interactive mechanisms. Not worth the €9.

Cute museum in Barolo. It is really a labour of live from the owner, who has some 1000 openers on display and 700 more in his personal collection. If you have a bit of time, definitely something to visit. He also sells great wine.

PRO'S: Basic information about the Italian wine industry is a plus. CON'S: The exhibit presentation rooms are spread over four floors and have plenty of uninteresting rooms to fill the museum. SUMMARY: WiMu Museum del Vino is not that interesting. Read a book instead.

Somehow strange, moreover a museum for imagination and inventivity; not at all what you would expect for such museum quite expensive. Old castle refurbished. Vieux from the top terrace are beautiful - you can see all the valley! Visitors are advised to take the elevator to the third floor and go down by stairs to the basement, where they can taste and buy some wine. Tasting is not free and its cost depends on the price of wine. If you do not buy wine don’t bother to go to the basement as there are many stairs and later you have to go up :)

Was a really interesting museum. A modern twist on wine history and leans more toward the cultural significance than the actual process of producing. Plenty to keep kids interested as well. Bonus it’s in the castle!

Very interesting musuem and you can learn a lot of facts about the Wine.

As much as we hoped to enjoy this museum, it was a complete strike out for both my husband and I. We went into it hoping to learn more about how the wine making processes have grown and evolved over the years, etc. Instead, two floors of the museum are filled with abstract and “far out” displays/illustrations in dark rooms where it feels like the goal was to see how bizarre they could make everything and still call it “art.” The only wine-making tools of the trade were on dusty shelves in the basement without any information plaques describing their purpose or history. In a region with such a deep and rich wine culture, it’s really a missed opportunity to use the castle in a meaningful way.

To be honest, we did not do our research correctly and visited the "museum" on the spur of the moment. A mistake we paid for dearly, believe me. Had we checked the website and read between the lines, we could have saved us both some money and time because this museum does NOT tell its visitors how wine is made nor does it really go into the wine specifics of the beautiful Barolo region. The fact that it is not a museum about winemaking is even neatly written on a plaque in the first room AFTER you pay for the ticket. As to what the museum is trying to tell, it was lost on me in all the dark rooms filled with strange lights, strange sounds and musty smells. As for the restroom/toilet facilities, I am almost at a loss for words. Because the nightmare that greeted us there on every floor (yes, we checked) was just beyond belief.  As for the rooms of the castle themselves, they would be beautiful if they had not been vandalized by a «modernising» of the interior. The only truly untouched, genuine part we were able to discover was a beautiful wine cellar-like room, but they actually parked the gift-shop there.

A very disappointing museum. It's more like you're walking through a modern art exhibit. The room about the history of wine has nothing to show for itself. No interesting artefacts or stories. The pieces that are meant to give some more explanation are weirdly abstract and have completely useless interactive mechanisms. Not worth the €9.

Cute museum in Barolo. It is really a labour of live from the owner, who has some 1000 openers on display and 700 more in his personal collection. If you have a bit of time, definitely something to visit. He also sells great wine.

PRO'S: Basic information about the Italian wine industry is a plus. CON'S: The exhibit presentation rooms are spread over four floors and have plenty of uninteresting rooms to fill the museum. SUMMARY: WiMu Museum del Vino is not that interesting. Read a book instead.